bill ackman's hedge fund controls a big chunk of universal music group. i wrote a lot about what it might mean that the world's biggest label is a publicly traded entity now, and about the relationship between ackman's politics and his investments

by historical standards, both the production and consumption of video is astronomically high right now, isn't it? so the problem is not that people aren't making stuff, but that the stuff they're making doesn't fit into a specific category?

what's the difference between a "movie" and a "video?"

american canto type beat

in 2025, digital production is abundant and low-value

this song is really good, yeah. i get the chorus stuck in my head probably more than any other song released this decade

American right-wing volunteers came from the United States to assist Israeli settlers in taking over our land in Hebron. They displaced the Native Americans in the past, and now they aim to displace us as well. They got rid of native Americans and now they want to help the

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wrote about this and all the other stuff that's been happening with AI music

never want to hear anyone say we’ve reached job equality when women working blue collar jobs are being harassed and KILLED by their male coworkers. amber was a skilled welder and was just 20 years old when she was beaten to death by her 40 year old coworker. justice for amber.

their lawsuit with suno remains ongoing, and spotify's willingness to deplatform the haven song for "artist impersonation" is best understood in the context of that conflict

UMG has already locked down udio, one of suno's primary competitors in the space, seemingly with the aim of turning it into a proprietary tool that only their own artists/producers can use to legally create commercial releases

big picture though, any reticence that entities like spotify or billboard have about platforming this stuff has nothing to do with opposing AI in principle and everything to do with trying to make sure the majors have monopoly control over how it gets used

we're probably less than a year out from a suno-generated track by a white kid from rural pennsylvania that sounds like a 96kbps cell phone rip of a rejected rihanna demo hitting the hot 100, so cultural critics should start getting their vocaloid-as-blackface essays in order now

they absolutely will include AI-generated music on the flagship charts when it comes out on a major label

In a radio interview, Abbott said his declaration was a response to an outcry over “the state’s growing Muslim population” and worries about “Muslim elected officials.” It’s grim how Republicans can just talk like this in public now.

The Israelis are still wiping out entire Palestinian families. A mother, father and their three children. The Palestinians are still trying to show us their dead but the platform and news media suppression of the continued horrors against Palestinians, the slaughter of high

Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich: "“We are killing the idea of a Palestinian state — day by day, hour by hour — with more than a hundred farms that already span over 700,000 dunams. These are state lands that we hold so the enemy won’t seize them."

Literally not a single western media outlet is talking about the effective annexation of my village in the West Bank, Beit Iksa. Not to mention, the daily settler attacks, arrests, Palestinian deaths and destruction of property that no one cares about…

is that fox nation martin scorsese docuseries about the saints any good

it would be irresponsible at this point not to at least consider the possibility that for the average person, the curation on spotify does work. it gives them whatever they need to keep paying in. surveillance works. WhoSampled is also a surveillance platform, so here we are